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L. B. COVERT.

PAPER FILE.

Patented Apra 23, 1867.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERNr Be it known that I, LEWIS B. OOV'ERT, of Chicago, in the State'of Illinois, have invented, made,

. and applied to use a certain new and useful Improvementin Paper-Files and Binders; and Ida hereby declare the following to be a fnll clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference being had to the annex making part of this specification, wherein- Figure 1 is a plan of my improved paper-file.

Figure 2 is a section at the line x 12:.

Figure 3 is a section at the line y 3 and Figureshows the metal binding clasp and its washer detached.

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

My invention is a means for holding together newspapers, periodicals, letters, prttnohlets, or similar articles, ay. I make use of a cover, of pasteboard or-similar material, upon which are fastened one or more slides receiving the heads of perforating clas'p over the ends of the perforating clasps, and the book thus formed is slid den out from the slide: filing away, and the cover can again be used bv the introduction of other perforating points in the slides of the cover. l

In the drawing, It represents a. board or cover ot any desired size or shape; 6 6, slides made 0t sheet metal and securedto the cover by the ends 1 1 being passed through and clinched. Sevcralof these slides may be employed I-have shown two. a c are my perforating clasps, made of sheet-metal strips, having at one end a point, split longitudinally as at 2, and at the otherend a head formed of the metal strip folded together as at. 3. This head is of a size to pass into the slide 6. w l I In orderto use this paper-file or hinder, all that is necessary is to press thcsuccessive sheetsupon the binder, so that-the perforating clasps shall pass through them, and a cord of India rubber, a, may be employed to hold these sheets to their places as they are added from time to tiine. This elastic cord mightbe connected to small thimble pieces of wood: or other material'to cover up the projecting points of the perform clasps. When the desired number of sheets has accumulated they are to' be attached together by turning over or clinching the points of the clasps c, and I prefer that a washer or cap-plate, d, be first put upon the clasp. The book can then be drawn out and removed from he hinder or file, and that beagain used by introducing other What I claim, and desire to secure by Iietters Patent, is- The file or hinder formed of the cover a, for the purposes specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this twenty-fourth day of October, D. 1866. LEWIS "B. COVERT.

and slides b, in combination with the perforating clasps c, as and Witnesses T.-B. Bnown, JULIUS KATZ.

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